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About sports in the USA: At school today, Lisa and Nadya saw children playing volleyball. “Maybe I should join a volleyball class?”. They approached the coach to ask about signing up. “From next September? You’re a bit late,” the coach replied, “To start this spring, you needed to sign up last March.” He said that they have 500 children and all the places are already taken.

After classes in literature, Lisa’s teacher asks to make sure the laptop is asleep before closing its lid.

After half the class ignored this single request, he came up with a punishment task for them (see scan).

Some time after distributing the assignments, the teacher asks if everything has been completed. Several people raised their hands. “Now, carefully reread the ninth item.” The main parts of the items are about various tasks, like remembering the character from “Flowers for Algernon,” or folding the paper in a clever way to find the text inside the created triangle. The ninth item said to ignore everything else and do only what it stated.

That’s their kind of literature in school 🙂

Today Liza had a quiz on Civics. There were only about 20 questions. The questions were asked orally just once. Liza managed to bring home only a few, the ones she could understand and remember. Here they are:

– Which team won 73 victories in the NBA?

– What did the former president of Facebook donate $250 million for?

– What was the name of the lady who interviewed Donald Trump recently?

– What is the name of the mountain range that stretches across South America?

– In which city was the biggest terrorist attack in the USA before 9/11, 20 years ago?

– What was the name of the war against slavery in the US?

– Something about Ashton Carter

– How many American presidents were named George?

– Which states border Mexico?

These are her school activities.

P.S. For those who don’t know, Civics is like lessons in law and social studies.

Changing oil at Jiffy Lube. It’s like the “McDonald’s” of the auto service market. They have 2000 locations in the US and 24 million customers annually. It looks like a gas station, just a bit slower.

You arrive at the location. Immediately, an employee runs up, takes your car keys, sends you to a cozy waiting room (11:50), and then sits in your car in line.

When it’s your turn, they open up the car (mine is in the background) and invite you to discuss the set of services (12:00). Typically, this includes an oil change, filters – oil and air, vacuuming, windshield wipers, antifreeze, brake fluid.

By 12:15, they return your keys and charge your card. Your car leaves, and a new one takes its place. A conveyor belt of services in action.

And to eat

Wonderful idea

I say: there are so many interesting places around! I’ve been here for four months already, and only a few weekends have been wasted.

Masha: That was when we went to the museums, right?

The Space Adventures office is located in my town, literally just a five-minute drive away. These are the guys who send billionaires into space. On their website, there’s a registry of attractions, and besides the classic trip to the ISS for 20 million dollars, they also sell trips to Baikonur to watch a rocket launch and to Star City to ride the simulators. They also sell ZeroG – http://www.gozerog.com/ which is experiencing zero gravity. Costs five thousand bucks.

I’m looking for a place to spend 20 million dollars tomorrow, and here is where I found it, smile emoticon

http://www.spaceadventures.com/

A little brain teaser before the release of Game of Thrones. You need to find a sponsor for product placement in the series, and you know that almost any major company would pay any money for an indirect mention of their brand spirit in an episode watched by an average of 20 million people. Obviously, you can’t show Coke or any other brand on camera, but you can make it so that everyone understands what you’re talking about. What idea do you have, and who will you approach?)

Let’s share the problem, I’m interested in the range of answers)